The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday in a case involving
the use of race in hiring could affect city and state governments
seeking to diversify their work forces, but it is not expected to
cause major ripples in colleges’ hiring or admissions processes—a
prospect some higher-education experts had feared.

“It’s not revolutionary,” Lawrence Z. Lorber, a labor and
employment lawyer for the firm Proskauer Rose, said of the ruling
in the case